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1 minute ago, teachercd said:

Don't know, ask BRB.  That is why I asked him.

You asked him for his address. Why, if you think squatting is girls peeing?

Just now, teachercd said:

For years I always thought squatters were just what we called girls when we had to pull over so they could pee.

Cool story. So what were you talking about here?

8 minutes ago, teachercd said:

Am I missing something here and I might be because I am wrong a lot but are you FOR squatting???

 

 

If so...can I have your address, please?

Can someone give me a tl;dr on whatever the latest right wing froth of "squatting" is?

14 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

So, I decided to look at this more.  It appears that on March 26th, the price shot up and the volume increased.

 

I wonder who was buying.  Was it just a bunch of MAGAts that decided to pump their life savings into the savior?  Was it foreign investors?  Or, did somehow, wall street actually find some form of value in this dumpster fire?

It's interesting. Orange Man Bad can't sell his shares for six months per an agreement. It'll be interesting to see if a company that's hemorrhaging money, with a tiny user base, is enough to keep that obviously inflated price that high for six months. 

The other problem is, for Orange Man Bad to realize any profits he'd have to sell his shares, but without his involvement what's the point of the app? There's every likelihood that as soon as he announces he's cashing in, the price plummets and he realizes a tiny fraction of that grossly inflated value. 

5 minutes ago, Danny Bateman said:

 

If you care at all about data this is just another drop in the bucket. The stack of special elections so far is very decidedly blue since the Roe decision so that indicates this is a very salient issue on a district level.

 

What we make of that on a national level is up to us. But it is staggeringly different than the top line general election poll numbers.

Exactly. This is just another in a long trend, dating back to the 2022 mid-terms that the Republicans were supposed to sweep, that have hinged on women voters protecting their rights.

It's a fair point to bring up that only 6,000 people voted in this special election. But it's also fair to point out that the Republican platform is not driving their voters to the polls. This was a solid red county that a Democrat flipped decisively in Alabama, among the reddest of states. 

Only 6,000 people showed up. Low turnouts are typical of special and primary elections. But the salient point here is that the Republican platform - which comes from the top down - is not popular among Independents and a lot of Republicans. That's why they've lost since overturning Roe. 

22 minutes ago, Crusader Husker said:

The worst thing that happened to the Repubs was the reversal of Roe V Wade.  It is an issue to run on, but you don't want it to actually happen like this.  I told my wife the republicans are now going to lose on this issue.  For once, I was right.  

 

I am sure there are other issues that parties run on that they don't want to actually change.

It's the ultimate "be careful what you wish for." The Republicans have been playing a decades-long game to stack the Supreme Court and overturn Roe, and now they're setting their sights on Obergefell, trans rights, religious exemptions to discrimination laws, etc. 

Problem is, when that plan was hatched, America was a very different place. Today more people want freedom of choice, freedom to have the consensual sex they want to have, they want legal weed, they want the government out of their reproductive lives, sex lives and healthcare. 

The country changed, but Republicans didn't. I think that's going to bite them hard, starting this year (although it really started in 2022).

39 minutes ago, DevoHusker said:

This is interesting, and you may be correct on your supposition. But perhaps this is the wrong thread?

 

It is the correct thread. Abortion rights are on the ballot. If Biden doesn't win, abortion will be criminalized early in the next term. 

Democrats keep winning elections.

That is a huge change in just two years. Could probably draw a straight line from overturning Roe to all of these results.

25 minutes ago, DevoHusker said:

 

I assume he means until the ship's owner, or Maersk Lines, repay the US Government, right?

Mexico is going to pay for it.

Jokes aside, he was asked about that, and he said that will come later. Finding out who's responsible could take years in maritime law, but that bridge needs to be rebuilt now.

Matt (I'm pretty positive) has a naval background. He's pretty sharp about these things, and helpfully explains them in terms laymen like me can understand.

8 minutes ago, Moiraine said:

Was the ship too tall or did it hit a pylon?

Edit: just watched the video. Edit2: Ok I decided to Google instead of ask Huskerboard.

Yeah, you can see in the video it loses power, regains it, loses it again, regains it again, but by that time it had drifted over 500 feet off course. 

Christians, didn't Jesus make a whip and rid the temple of people like this?

This bible costs SIXTY DOLLARS. 

10 hours ago, Hooked on Huskers said:

BTW, five years ago or so, I posted my design vision ......

 

second deck, closer to the action

This has to be the 87th time you've posted this.

13 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

He has all kinds of butt kissers that are more than willing - from Tim Scott on the east coast to Kari Lake way out west and a bunch of spinless GOPers er Trump cultist in between. 

Lake is focused on her Senate run. I think she knows she has a better chance of winning that than winning as a Veep for this candidate.

There is zero chance Scott is the choice. Mostly because of his race. Not only does Orange Man Bad have a notorious racist streak, his likely voters are similarly racist. 

Rubio is probably the top candidate. He's a household name, he's Hispanic, he's tame. 

ISIS knows how brutal the Russians can be. I don't grasp why those guys would murder all of those people, then allow themselves to be taken alive. 

ISIS has used suicide bombers in the past. Surely it had to be better for these men to complete their mission, then suicide, rather than be taken alive to be tortured for... who knows how long. 

23 minutes ago, funhusker said:

This was an excellent post.  For those of you that didn't read because of paragraphs, give it another shot!  I added some spots for "brain breaks" 

 

Thanks for sharing @Madcows

I was just going to do this but my contractor stopped over and I had to let them in.

On 3/22/2024 at 11:36 AM, Moiraine said:

I would guess the biggest problem of doing this accurately (and obviously the are a lot of problems), is the words documented from the earliest presidents would almost all be prepared speeches, and sound smarter than off the cuff remarks we have from modern presidents. But maybe they base part of it off decisions too. Who knows.

If you read through their explanation, the person simply guessed at more recent presidents.

I would imagine that was posted because of the last ten people on that person's ranking.

25 minutes ago, DevoHusker said:

Ah, so it was a political snub

What is it about conservatives that make then so adamantly stand up for and play the victim for billionaires (and people who claim to be billionaires but obviously aren't)? 

32 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Where was this event?  Was it in Michigan?  Was it sponsored by the Big Three?

 

There's a lot of context that isn't explained here.

Every vehicle on that stage was built by union labor. 

1 hour ago, funhusker said:

It’s getting to the point in the election cycle that never Trump republicans are going to start finding reason to hate Biden to rationalize a Trump vote, I believe.

They were always going to do this. 

2 hours ago, ZRod said:

Did you ever stop to think what the context of that photo might be, or did you just embrace the rage bait?

Column B

5 hours ago, DevoHusker said:

Perhaps I am the one that doesn't get it? 

You're splaining at @Moiraine for something you pedantically told me you understand.

She gets it. You get it. We all get it.

1 hour ago, DevoHusker said:

Thanks for letting us know that you know about the Babylon Bee. 

I understand that D*ck said that quote. To get the satire, one has to consider the absolute comedy of D*ck saying that about anyone...even Trump.

You realize that's a direct quote from Dick Cheney in his daughter's new campaign ad, and not something the Babylon Bee made up as satire, right?

The rest of the "article" is satire. That quote is from Dick.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/d!(k-cheney-trump-threat-ad-b2138602.html